OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.8 x 16 cm.

Lines:

18

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

At the top of the document there are traces of an earlier text having been washed out.

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. Broken on the right side and at the bottom. The left margin is 2 cm., the top one 1 1/2 cm.

Content

Date:

Late Ist century A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Theabennis

Title / Type of text:

Petition to the nomarchs

Content:

Petition from an Egyptian weaver to the nomarchs in order to be relieved from the weavers' tax.

Subjects:

Petition Tax Weaving Profession

Named people:

Theabennis, son of Hieranouphis and Thaesis, gerdios Menucius Celer, nomarches Eirenaios, nomarches

Named places:

Karanis

English translation:

To the nomarchs Menucius Celer and Eirenaios, from Theabennis, son of Hieranouphis, his mother being Thaesis, a serviceman, advanced in years, from the village of Karanis. Since I am no longer able to practice as a weaver, due to failing eyesight and old age - I am about eighty-? years old - I ask to be exempt from the weavers' tax from ...

Provenance:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 124

Further Literature

Bergamasco M, ZPE 147 (2004) 155-156Reiter F, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites. 2004, 10 n. 7; 14-15; 22 n. 4; 37 n. 26; 93; 144; 312Bergamasco M, ""Hyperetes archaios in P.Osl. III 124"", in Scrivere, leggere, interpretare. Studi di antichità in onore di Sergio Daris. Trieste 2005. Electronic publication: http://140.105.59.2/crevatin/franco_crevatin_homepage.htm